AM ISRAEL CHAI! Yes, Queen! And In Your Face, Haters!✡️❤️

“Mighty waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away” (Song of Songs 8:7)

Shalom everyone! 😊 A personal note, if I may…

So… what did we learn from last night’s Eurovision? Quick summary (if you’ll indulge me 😉).

We learned that many of the judges deliberately avoided voting for Israel, despite knowing full well that we deserved it. Why?

Because they feared being cancelled and facing backlash from their hateful, radicalized audiences if they dared to support the Jewish state.

Because some of them are, quite simply, antisemites. No matter how breathtaking Yuval’s performance was (and it was magnificent), they had already decided not to vote for her, because their hatred runs that deep.

But here’s the twist:
The global audience saw through it, and wasn’t having it! You voted for Israel in massive numbers to compensate for the judges’ hate and bias.

In fact, had Yuval not been deliberately held back by those so-called “professionals,” she would have taken first place based on public support alone! Isn’t that amazing?

Last night, you sent us a few powerful messages:

1. Yuval is the best—and she deserved the recognition for the sheer WOW factor she brought to the stage.

2. You love us - the Jewish people - no matter what the antisemitic media, the twisted narratives, or the loud mobs try to portray. You saw through the lies, and you stood with us, proudly and loudly.

3. You’re sick of the “Free Palestine” nonsense… the pro-terror mobs marching through your streets, trying to import their medieval, 7th-century death cult into your modern, free Western democracies. You voted for Israel, the country standing at the front line of the free world, fighting that barbarism every single day.

   

And if I may add a fourth point (even though I said I’d stop at three 😉):

4. Your vote represented all of the above. And for that, we are truly, deeply grateful.

We Israelis feel your love. You lifted our spirits during one of the most challenging times in our modern history.

Yuval - our angelic-voiced, radiant, and fearless representative - is not just a performer. She is a genocide survivor. She lived through the horrors of October 7th, when Hamas-ISIS terrorists and “innocent” Gazans invaded Israel and committed unspeakable atrocities.

Yuval's life hung by a thread as they shot at her and her friends, hurling grenades to ensure no one survived. She survived by playing dead.

And from that horror, she rose, like a phoenix, to stand on the biggest stage in the world and declare to millions:

Am Yisrael Chai. The People of Israel live.

She sang in memory of over 1,200 Jews slaughtered in cold blood that day. She sang for our brave IDF soldiers fighting on the front lines to eradicate this evil. She sang for our nation that, against all odds, has always prevailed, by the grace of God Almighty.

Life is sacred to us.
We choose it. We cherish it. We defend it!

And just before belting out Am Yisrael Chai in the face of all the haters, Yuval sang these beautiful words:
"מים רבים לא יוכלו לכבות את האהבה, ונהרות לא ישטפוה"
“Mighty waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away” (Song of Songs 8:7)

This forceful verse reminds us of who we are: Jews are about love, and love will win ✡️❤️.

Yuval was already a winner before a single vote was cast. If that’s not divine, I don’t know what is.

And while the final results were being announced, the Houthis fired ballistic missiles at us, yet again… forcing us into bomb shelters. And yet, that only made Am Yisrael Chai ring louder.

This is our truth:
We will choose life.
We are resilient.
And we will live! No matter what.

An IDF special unit putting Tefillin on a Holocaust survivor - that’s our triumph.

Photo credit: Oren Cohen, Israel Today.

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עם ישראל חי

Toda Raba, Yuval, for bringing us pride and honor beyond words. Your voice is a gift. Your strength is a beacon. You are a hero.

To everyone who voted, thank you.
Thank you for standing with us.
And may our beloved Israel live forever.

ISRAEL LIVES.

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Tzlil Berko was recently appointed as a Fellow at the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT).